Security Council

5073^rd Meeting (AM)

AFGHANS SHOWED ‘REMARKABLE POLITICAL MATURITY’ DURING RECENT PRESIDENTIAL

ELECTION, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR PEACEKEEPING TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL

Also Warns Next Year’s Parliamentary Elections

Would Be Much More Complicated, Fraught with Security Concerns

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

29^th & 30^th Meetings (AM & PM)

United Nations humanitarian agencies make progress in Haiti, despite obstacles

NEW YORK, 9 November (OCHA) -- United Nations agencies operating in Haiti report that the humanitarian situation in Haiti’s north-western city of Gonaïves is improving though serious concerns remain.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

25^th Meeting (AM)

Legal Committee seeks Assembly adoption of United Nations

 

Convention on Jurisdictional immunities of States

 

Following is the text of Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s introductory remarks at the lecture on “Why Music Matters” by Professor Leon Botstein in New York, today, 8 November:

Dear colleagues and friends, I am delighted to welcome you to another lecture in this series.  Today, our subject is music.

“What’s that got to do with the UN?” you may be asking.  My answer is that music has to do with everything.

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Fourth Committee

22^nd Meeting (AM)

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Third Committee

38^th Meeting (AM)

INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY MUST DO MORE TO COMBAT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, ENSURE

RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION, THIRD COMMITTEE TOLD, AS DISCUSSION CONCLUDES

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Sixth Committee

23^rd & 24^th Meetings (AM & PM)

WIDER ADHERENCE TO EXTRA PROTOCOLS TO GENEVA CONVENTION ON VICTIMS

OF ARMED CONFLICT IS SOUGHT BY LEGAL COMMITTEE

 

PROPHETS OF DOOM WRONG ABOUT UNITED NATIONS, DEPUTY SECRETARY-GENERAL

SAYS IN ADDRESS TO UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

 

(Delayed in transmission.)

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s address at the inauguration of the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa on 1 November:

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

50^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS TEXTS TO PROMOTE MULTILATERAL COOPERATION,

FILLS VACANCIES ON SUBSIDIARY BODIES

 

Unanimously adopting four resolutions to enhance cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations, the General Assembly today continued its efforts to strengthen solidarity through multilateral cooperation.